| tly, I was doing my normal marketing online in | | | | business without any products. |
| forums, blogs and many other strategies to allow | | | | 1. Get to know people in barter exchange events |
| others to know about my online business. | | | | and networking dinners. |
| Surprisingly, of all the marketing strategies I used | | | | 2. Exchange name cards |
| social networking in weekly dinners that I attend | | | | 3. Give them a call to ask them if they are |
| at networking dinners gave me a chance to even | | | | interested to widen their business on the internet |
| know more suppliers and customers who are | | | | and work something out from there |
| interested in my trade more effectively and | | | | 4. Always think win-win in order to have a |
| faster. | | | | successful deal. |
| The reason why it was faster because I was able | | | | Some companies who just started out with retails |
| to communicate directly to the person which give | | | | stores who do not have any online website would |
| the personal touch and feel of the person if he is | | | | be more then willing to give you their products to |
| trustable. Most of the time, people in networking | | | | sell them online. The business term we call it |
| events or barter exchanges are more then willing | | | | would be consignment. |
| to exchange contacts to work together. | | | | Once you managed to get the deal, do make |
| What happened to me recently, I was dealing | | | | sure the consignment is stated clearly what are |
| with corporate gifts and I got a better response | | | | the terms and conditions to distribute the |
| from socializing with some companies’ | | | | products. |
| social networking in networking events. It did not | | | | The key to this is you want to soft sell yourself |
| cost me much but I found it to be quite effective | | | | to your suppliers and customers so that you can |
| to market my business and also to find partners | | | | build creditability with them and do more future |
| who are willing to do business with me. | | | | business with them. |
| This is what you can do if you want to start a | | | | |